Club Shay Shay - Nightcap Hour 1: Argentina COMPLETES COMEBACK vs Egypt + iShowSpeed ENDURES RACIST Taunts at World Cup + Switzerland KNOCK OFF Colombia + Belgium EMBARRASSES USA
Episode Date: July 8, 2026Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Argentina completing comeback vs Egypt, iShowSpeeds encounters racism at World Cup, Switzerland knocks off Colombia in... PK’s and Belgium embarrasses USA in World Cup Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 00:00 - Introduction03:41 - Argentina beat Egypt21:12 - iShowSpeed enduring racist taunts from fans during World Cup games35:40 - Switzerland defeats Colombia38:20 - Belgium sent the USA out bad (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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man, man, man, what a game.
Argentina down, oh, two.
Hey, they were down to 79th minute, down two goals.
And then, boy, Messi provided to Christian Romero.
And the 79th minutes of gold.
And four minutes later, the gold himself, Lionel Messi.
And then, Messy, hey, Joe, Ocho.
I was like, man, you mean to tell me Egypt is going to knock off the reigning,
defending champs, would many consider the greatest player they ever played?
Is that what Egypt's about to do?
Let's just say, man, y'all know I ain't going out like that.
Man, I'm him.
I've been him.
And boom, boom, boom.
And they win the game.
Oh, Joe, what happened?
I don't know what happened.
Obviously, it was two, it was two zero.
I said, I tweeted out that it's not looking good.
The refs can help.
The refs can help Argentina too much longer.
And then as soon as I tweeted that, Egypt went on the score.
It's two zero.
Now, so at this point, I'm like, okay, Egypt should be, yeah, it's in the bag.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But there's the, there's a, there's a, there's a saying, two zero is a worst lead to
have in soccer.
Why they say it?
Why is that?
I have no idea, Uncle Joe, I have no idea.
Long behold, here we go, messy magic.
Messy magic.
Romero gets one, Enzo gets one, messy gets one.
And before you, before you know it, it's three, two.
And obviously, the Egypt head coach is complaining.
he's saying the refs.
He's not happy about, you know,
some of some of the calls in the game.
I think Egypt should have had a third goal.
If anything, the game should have been 3-3.
There must have been a foul somewhere.
I mean, listen,
Argentina looked dead in the water
until it mattered most.
And Messi is one of the best,
Uncle Joe, in those moments
when you need it most, he always come through.
Now, some people will say, oh, the ref cheated,
this happened.
but those goals
they still had to go in the back of the net
that shot by Messi
that was very very difficult
that header by Enzo
very very difficult obviously
not for them because they do it all the time
but man it was a good game
and you know messy
messy's the real deal
the messes the real deal again
I understand his greatness
a lot of people they were on my head on Twitter
today after the game
and he's a lot of people's
goat. I love him to death. I love
what he's done for the game.
But
I don't know what else to say. I don't know what else to say about
Messi that already hasn't been said.
He to go.
You haven't said that.
Everybody has been said that you haven't said. You say
you don't know what it's to be saying. You out of
your part your lips and say
messy the goat, chat. I fought
as long as I could. I fought as long
as I could. I can't fight it any
longer. Yeah. Okay.
My bad.
Hey, hey, he might be, he won up him for damn show.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Absolutely.
He's one of them.
And listen, it all comes down to preference.
Now, when you argue about the goat debate, obviously,
on one of the things that you and Joe are really good at doing is you understand the resume and the accolades and what every player has done to support your notion on why.
Yes.
Who player said player is goat?
Now, when I, when I say it, I'm saying I like it based on this individual's style of
preference that I can actually relate to.
I can relate to that.
I can't relate to mess in any type of way because I'm not small.
I'm not short.
I mean,
I can't do any of that.
But Cristiano,
I can relate to the flare,
the flash,
the speed,
playing on the wing.
If I did happen to play football,
I mean,
play soccer.
I would be something like that with a little tad bit of craziness to it.
I mean,
that's what I can relate to.
That's why I prefer him as my goat,
as opposed to other people.
And they bring up all the accolades.
I understand.
I know.
I know.
You can't go wrong.
Just for me, I prefer Cristiano.
For those that like Messi, I love you.
He's one of the greatest of all time.
But I just...
Well, it's not like a lot of other sports.
Bigs don't ever get big.
Big, I mean, nobody really ever consider
a big in basketball to go.
Because of Cream and Will and Bill Russell,
they don't even get no consideration.
And you're talking about one, 11-11 championships,
one got 30,000 points and 20,000 rebounds,
and the other got six MVP's,
six champions.
championships and ten appearances.
And they don't really, so we look at going to hell.
Won 11 championships?
Bill Russell.
Well, who the hell was he playing against?
They won eight straight.
Well, at that time, that was in the beginning.
That was in the 60s.
They won eight of the 10 championships contested in the 60s.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, hey, A, Ocho, that's that Celtic pride.
That's Celtic history, right?
Yeah, he leading to charge in that.
What the hell?
Yeah.
During the match, Hassan made the ex with his arms to report a case of racism.
However, it was ignored by the rep.
Egypt after the defeat of Argentina at the World Cup said,
we were wrong by the referee today.
Everyone saw it.
After 2-0, everything went and worked against us.
I guess that's the signal for someone on the field.
I guess someone on the field says something racist or use racist language or something.
I don't know that that's something you can clarify.
I don't know.
know, obviously in this World Cup,
most of the time when players want to say something insulting
to another player, I'm not sure
of it's coming from the stands.
It was referring to a player saying something, right?
I don't know. We held hands up.
Now, Argentina, I don't know, I don't know,
and there was a situation
where somebody in the stand
says something to speed
a couple days ago. I saw that. I saw that. I don't
know why people are surprised
to Argentina. Do y'all not know
history? Where do y'all thought? The
Nazis and the fascist went.
When the fall, when, when, when
Nazism fell in Germany, what did you think they go?
What did Eichmann and Joseph Mingling
the angel of death? What do you think they went to?
Where do you think all those soldiers and all the upper ranks
where they went to?
They fled to Argentina.
Peron gave him sanctuary.
Oh, my man, damn.
Man, you know what Joe, I hate doing.
How do you be doing all this stuff?
That's what I'm saying.
Hey, you're teaching me something here.
Keep going.
Hey, I'm in history class.
Yes. Yes.
Even though, even though I know y'all know the story about Evita,
Ava Perone, who was the highest record,
she was married to, I know who that is.
Yeah, but the song, Don't Cry for me, Argentina.
That'll have anything to do with what transpired.
But even though, even though he got overthrown,
got exiled, came back, won an election again,
ended up having a heart attack.
But y'all got to understand the history of this.
Nobody's surprised, if you know history,
nobody's surprised at all.
Argentina. Now, I'm not saying somebody on the, but when he said, when that said that speed,
I wasn't surprised. I might have been to one of the least surprised people, given the history of
Argentina and how everybody that was under Nazi Germany, a lot of a high-ranking official,
they got sanctuary in Argentina. So I was, I wasn't surprised by that. Now, I don't know when
you throw up the ex-sign chat, y'all can educate me on that. What does that mean? With somebody
says something on the field, it's hard for me to believe that somebody can
say something and the stands
and then the fish is on the field.
But I guess they could. They've done it before.
They tried to clean that up, Ocho,
because you used to hear chance and stuff like that.
Yeah. We just saw a situation where the
Paraguay, the senator
of Paraguay said something about I and Boppe.
And then not she threw in the
and refuse to apologize at that.
Now what they did is World Cup
so players can't throw insults. Most of the time
what they like to do, Uncle Joe, they like to cover
their mouth and talk to get the insults
soft. But at this World Cup, if you
cover your mouth you get an automatic red card you get an automatic automatic
red car so no one's been able to cover their mouth if you're gonna say anything
if you're gonna sell somebody you gotta say it and obviously they don't want you
cover your mouth because now they can read your lips and hey hey hey one thing
about this world cup man playing soccer boy you gotta be tough out that don't you
are oh cho oh oh oh yeah hey them boys jump down your hey them boy jumped down your
throw in a minute talk you know what I mean talking man hey I say man look every time
somebody jump up and getting somebody face
I'm like,
shh.
And you know, a lot of times, guys,
these guys speak multiple languages.
Yeah.
Like you might be saying something slick
that they don't understand.
Exactly what you're saying.
So you think you tried to get one off on them.
They're like, hold on.
What's your saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But this was the unbelievable game.
I just knew Argentina.
I said, man, Argentina, y'all done.
Bro.
You did. I said, ain't no way.
And I'm looking.
I'm like, damn, Egypt brought to pull off.
And look.
If you've made it this far, obviously you are very good team.
It's not an accident that you're to the round of 16.
That's not an accident.
But to be, and there are the reigning champs who's played unbelievable thus far.
And they've got the best player, many consider the best player in the world or one of the two or three.
Now, we know what he represents all time.
But he still might be one of the handbooked two or three best players that's currently in this tournament.
And we've got them on the ropes.
and you know what the coach is saying
I can just picture him saying it with the old Denny Green
Argentina is who we thought they were
and we let them off the hook
if you were the crowd
and you crown their ass
but they are who we thought they were
and we let them off the hood.
You know what's funny too, Uncle Joe?
If you look at Argentina
people in the chat, I'm sure you could agree with me
even if you like messy, even if you do like
Argentina is their path
to the round of 16 was fairly easy.
Obviously the group stage play
wasn't hard at all.
It really wasn't difficult.
They didn't have to play anybody.
No disrespect to those teams that they did have to play.
And obviously, Cape Verde had a great showing, obviously, against Argentina.
But I'm saying, and this was their first real test.
This was their first real test of playing a top club, a club that can perform well
and play well with them in all three phases of the game.
And it looked to me, I was kind of, I'm not going to say I was nervous,
but I also thought they had in the bag.
Oh, you was nervous.
You had to be nervous, my God.
I'm not nervous because I'm not going for Argentina,
but I just, the messy magic showed up at some point.
I mean, and obviously collectively as a team,
they did well to come back and get in that game.
But it was a joy.
That was the most exciting game,
one of the most exciting games of the tournament.
Easily.
Well, here's the thing, though, Joe,
let's just say for the,
let's just say he wasn't rooting for Argentina
because it would help his case a lot more
if Bernardo goes out.
Right.
And Messi goes out right on.
Right.
Because the last thing that he wanted to see how
If this man get another golden boot and another World Cup,
because it's going to get harder and harder to make that argument,
even if you like his stock.
Not really,
because even though Messi won the World Cup last year
and Cristiano hadn't won one,
I never used stats and accolades
when I talk about the conversation of who the goat is.
Everyone else does.
And not understanding my choice and preference of player
is based on skill and technique
and stuff of that magnitude.
Well, then, how is he not skill?
if he doesn't got all them,
he's going to go.
Because I can,
if I'm,
if,
let's just say,
I can't go out there
and mimic and try to emulate
messy in real life.
I can try and emulate
and replicate what Kreschano does.
I can't?
You should be able to be with messy
because you could take off running
and not every,
running everybody to the ball
and put it in the back of the neck.
I don't get as easy as you think, man.
I know it's not easy.
But with your speed,
all I do give you a great lead,
you take up.
Hey, for one, listen, when Messi dribble, the ball is stuck at his foot, Joe.
It's like, it's like, you know how you got a yo-yo and a yo-yo being on the screen.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
Pushing on him, tugging him.
Yeah.
Yeah, Messi, Messi got a handle like me.
See, you got a handle like, let's see who you got to handle like.
You got to handle like DeAndre Aiden or somebody.
You ain't, you know what I'm saying?
Your hand, you know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
You're handling the ball ain't what you do.
feel? Yeah. Yeah. Little
hand. Okay. Yeah. They call it
they call them small hands. Okay. Okay. Okay.
But they say messy is small. They say messy hands
are only seven and a half inches. Do you know how small that is?
That's a large lady's man. Do you understand how small
seven inches is for a man to have hands that small? Do you
do people realize that? Yeah. That's why he don't have to use them.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what. I don't know. I don't know what.
I don't know what he could play other than soccer with that small.
He, he, he, he, he, he, he, out there with a glove.
He out there with, I don't know what type of glove he's going to have.
He'll have a kid's glove for real playing in the major.
Hey, it's all good, man.
But that joke was phenomenal, man.
Yeah.
And just when you think he's done, this when you think,
you can never count that joke out.
He caught that ball in.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice little Bali, right out there, man.
And then, then he put it, the only place you can put it to get in the goal.
to go in.
He kicked that thing so fast and so hard,
Ocho, I'm like, ain't no way.
This man got to be praying.
This is a praying man.
Ain't no way.
You can see how much that game meant to him
after that game,
he was crying.
Yeah.
He was crying.
He was crying because he know,
he know the opportunity
that they have now
and what they had to overcome
to get to hell.
Yeah.
You're being, man, come on, man.
They really supposed to have been down three nothing.
Hey, I ain't going to say done.
I ain't going to say done.
Yeah, they,
really poor hey that second that second goal by Egypt after they took that one
yeah he came back there was a if you go like but they had done take his shirt
off on that second when they took it back he came right back I saw yeah they
feel like Argentine gonna go down even Brady said hey man this might top 28
three man being down two goals in the 70 that that's about that's no no it's
top that it don't top that Brady that's what Brady tweet is it's equivalent in a sense
because it's the World Cup.
So it's equivalent.
Because Bradyman was down,
Bradyman was down,
I think Bradyman was down 283 with 306,
three minutes,
almost a little over three minutes left in the third quarter.
So they had about 18 minutes.
So if you look at it,
they basically had to overcome,
they had to overcome what they did.
So they had 11 minutes left to make it 90
and stop his time.
So they had about four or five minutes.
So they basically had 14, 15 minutes
to overcome a two-go deficit.
of the Spurs in this finals,
I ain't seen a bigger debacle.
I'm serious than what the Falcons had
against the Patriots.
That's one of the biggest.
Yeah, I mean, you got to go back,
well, just a couple of, what you call them?
The Colts?
No, Minnesota, who had to lead
with 31-0 over the coast?
Wait, 31-0.
30-something and nothing.
Hold on.
That was this year?
That was two years ago.
Didn't Minnesota come back and beat somebody like that?
Not 31, huh?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yes.
Chad, who was that?
Who had that lead like that?
Was that, did Indy beat Minnesota or Minnesota beat Indy?
That must have been just a regular season game?
Colts blew 3.0.
Yes.
Damn.
330.
Buffalo came back in the playoffs against the,
against the Houston, Houston, the Oilers.
330?
Yes.
Yes.
We talked about it.
That's how I remember.
We talked about it.
Yes.
But it's, and I tell people,
it's easier to play from behind and come from behind
as opposed to get a lead and try to hold on to it
because you get conservative.
Because what happens is that you're like,
man, why you stop throwing it?
Yeah.
Why you stop doing it?
because I'm trying to bleed the clock.
I'm not going to stop the clock.
And I don't want to give them any,
I don't want to give them any scoop and scores
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Karen, and it gets picked.
So I'm trying to do everything I possibly can
to keep us out of that situation.
So you start to play extra cautious.
I get to get extra aggressive
because I'm already down.
Don't give it down.
I ain't got nothing to lose.
Yep, absolutely right.
You got everything to lose.
You're supposed to win.
Like I said, that's why you said 33,
nothing, 33 nothing, you're supposed to win the game.
I don't give a damn what happens.
Damn.
Not in today's game, not in today's game, fellas.
Not the way it's played. It's just like basketball.
It's easy to come back now.
What a three point shot.
And everybody's shooting so well.
You only had like a handful of guys.
Right.
Now you got a team, two or three guys can get hot
and make five, six in a row.
And what was a, what was a 20 point lead is down to six or eight
inside of two minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Last week while streaming at Argentina's win over Kate Birdie,
a different fan speed in Spanish,
go cry at the zoo.
Damn.
And you know the Paraguay lady,
what the Paraguay Senator,
what she said to Mbopi.
I'm saying, does this surprise you on Ocho, though?
No, hell.
No, no, not Argentina.
No.
Even in Belgium.
People understand the story of Belgium,
and people talk about these horrible dictators.
And I hate assignment where he was working.
If you're a dictator, you're bad.
So I hate assigning where he was worse than him.
And we mentioned dictators.
We mentioned Stalin.
And we mentioned, uh, uh, uh,
and we mentioned, uh, who was that,
Ediam.
And we mentioned penitia.
And we mentioned, uh, uh, Pol Pot.
I don't know if people know about King Leopold of Belgium and what he did.
Go study.
And they go look that up.
When they talk about all these others,
go look at what King Leopold did in Belgium to those people.
Oh, my God.
And then you're going to start to say, well, hello.
Why don't we talk about him like we talk about some of these others?
Oh, my goodness.
That's why I wanted them to beat Belgium more than anything.
Now, look, I'm not feeling to sit here and try to put us on a pedestal,
because we've had our own share of atrocity.
right here in America, okay?
So, chat, I don't want you to think that I would ever.
I'm just saying there are things that have happened in society that we try to brush over.
And sometimes even if you try to brush over, it doesn't go away.
Nope.
Man, this, I wrote a, hold on.
I wrote a quote down today, man, that Einstein said.
And man, this thing spoke to me like, I don't know if anything has ever kind of spoke to me,
kind of like this.
Like, uh, hold on.
Let me find this.
quote. Oh, he says whoever runs with a lie at some point will eventually trip over the truth.
Nothing remains hidden forever.
Eventually, no matter what you scrub away, no matter what they do with the textbooks, no matter what they do, no matter what, try the story they try to tell, nothing remains hidden forever.
People who do their homework, they'll do their research and they'll find out.
But I'm not surprised.
When they said Argentina, I was like, okay.
I'm not surprised.
I mean, especially in soccer, you know, racism has always been prevalent,
depending on the league that you're playing.
Players have had to deal with it.
There was an incident, obviously, with Vinnie, when Vinnie,
when Real Madrid playing Benfica, there was an incident.
And just over the years, it's always been issued racism in general.
And it's always been a part of sports, you know.
you get rid of it.
Sometimes they ban fans when they're able to catch who the fans are.
But it'll always be there, Uncle.
It'll always be there.
It's as American as Apple Pie.
Yep.
I'm just going to take it as what?
I got to write that down.
He's as American as Apple Pie.
I mean, some things are just inherently in the game.
I mean, I read that before, you know, whites wouldn't fight blacks
because they said they didn't deserve a chance at the championship.
They wouldn't fight them.
And think about it,
they had to pass legislation
to get blacks to be even in the league.
You remember there wasn't no blacks in baseball.
They wasn't no blacks in football.
There wasn't no blacks.
You hear the first black, the first this.
What, Jackie Robinson in 1947?
Man, they've been playing baseball since the damn of 1800s.
Late 1800s.
It took damn near 100 years.
Damn.
Oh, yeah, there were no blacks in football.
Hey, give them the history on how long.
Man, you know,
What I hate doing.
Are you good?
You're going to get bad.
They're going to get bad at a little.
They're going to get bad at a vote, Joe.
And they're going to say, you, you break your policy.
I'm sorry.
Politics is the part of the sports.
Tell them how long it took they get a black quarterback out there.
Oh, bad.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, I think Marlon Briscoe was the first black to start a game.
And he was in the Broncos, I think, in 1968.
Now, you had Shaq Harris for the Rams.
You had Marlon Briscoe.
You had Joe Gilliam.
Yeah.
Jefferson Street, Joe.
So we had some, but it wasn't until Doug did what he did that they really, really felt.
Because unless you win the big prize, Ocho, they say, oh, yeah, you won a game or two.
But can you win the ultimate prize in which how you're judged?
And that's a Super Bowl.
And once Doug did that, it's like, okay, maybe they can.
I mean, think about, go back and I think what, I saw a thing with,
Hank Aaron was doing a story
about the hate mail that he was getting
about he was about to break
Bay Ruth's record.
Yeah. It was bad, man.
Well, it was so bad, Joe.
It was, well, people don't even know.
But they want to, but they see,
but see what they do is they say,
well, you had a two-term black president,
so racism had to be gone.
See, they'll take an isolated incident.
They'll take a situation like Joe,
or myself or Ocho,
someone that's made it.
See?
you made it.
Everybody can make it. Come on now.
Come on now.
It's crazy.
You got to realize, I mean, hey, you didn't have, I mean,
supposedly we had rights, but it took the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Yeah.
The Fair Housing Act, it had so many.
I mean, you had to, it's in the Constitution,
what you're supposed to be able to do,
and we still had to go fight for it.
People died.
March the Edmond,
Peders Bridge and Selma.
When the boycott, the bus boycott,
the same thing in Greensburg, the city is.
That was in the Constitution.
We're supposed to be able to vote.
We're supposed to write the vote.
And we still got to die for it.
So I'm not surprised.
But I don't want people to think it's just your hell.
Open your phone.
You see it on social media.
Somebody constantly used the, I saw a guy,
I think a guy, he got, I think he got three,
10 years, three, five years in jail.
He ended up punching a man because he kept calling.
of his kids the N-word and he said they had a history of that.
Yeah.
So I don't want people think it's just Argentina or it's just Belgium or it's Europe.
Good old, good old America.
We got our fair share right here too.
Yeah, absolutely.
We got our fair share right here too.
So I'm not surprised.
So hopefully, like you said, Ocho, it's not leaving.
It's not going to where because, hey,
Ashton also said something also.
He said so very interested in it.
I know this to be true.
He said, watch how what people say to you when they're angry.
He said, they've been dying to tell you that.
Watch how people talk to you when they get angry, Ocho.
They've been dying to tell you this.
Okay, so, okay.
Cambodia really meant that.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Baby.
Okay.
Yeah.
Remember how I said, Ocho, people get, and people use that as a, see,
alcohol breaks down your inhibitions.
See, you won't do anything drunk.
at least thought about sober.
Because your mind won't let you go there.
See, alcohol breaks down to inhibition.
The fear that you had of maybe doing that.
And then what did they say?
Man, I was drunk.
You thought about that while you were sober.
Now, I got a question.
Now, I like...
Out of the mouth speaks the heart.
That's what the Bible teaches us.
I like that.
I like that.
So, yeah, so, Juncker Joe.
Now, give me this one now.
Now, you know, you got people that sleep all,
you got some people that talk and they sleep.
So last night, I was sure.
sleeping and I kept hearing something
and Cambodia was she was talking
in her sleep. So obviously
wouldn't the truth be
that that would also be the truth
whatever you say in your sleep? Well
what was she saying? That's a
that's a subconscious. It's like
Chad you ugly. That's an involuntary response.
Huh? Go ahead, don't you Joe? What she say?
What did she say? Oh Joe? She probably said that. She would probably
wide away.
That's different.
But, I mean, people use, and people use,
I was angry, I was upset.
That's how they really feel, huh?
That's how they really feel, always.
Kids, angry people who generally tell you the truth.
Yep.
Because they'll suppress a lot of things
and then speak on it.
And, look, and, but I was like, huh?
But I'm not surprised by this.
I mean, I wish,
I mean, this is, if Dr. King was still alive, he'd be over 100 years of age,
he'd still be disappointed.
Yeah.
He still be disappointed.
It was a good fight.
The message in what he was trying to get across was awesome.
A lot of people died for that.
A lot of people still fight for that this day.
But with great understanding that we got a long way to go.
And even though we wanted to end, it's something that is highly unlikely because there's so many
different people that will never
because you have to look at society
how was it founded how was America found it
take your time
y'all know what they did
y'all know what the people that was already here what they did
not only did they kill them and steal their land
they gave them blankets that was infected
with smallpox so when they went on the trail of tears
they were dying along the way
so they could steal more than land come on
come on man I don't want to get our sponsorship
taking I don't want to do it I don't want to do it
Come on, man.
Don't know how America was founded.
Chat, no.
So think about it.
Think about all those countries that got invaded
and they stole their value with their artwork.
The Nazis, when they took the artwork,
when they, an Austria and all these countries,
what did they do?
They made them give it back.
But you come take these people land
and you rob these black men
that was sharecroppers and purchased this land
and you took it from them
and when they say give it back you said no
but you know what
Chad up I don't said enough
I don't said enough
y'all y'all go see I chat we I've tried to get us
I'm trying to get us some sponsorship and I don't know
if this is helping our cause but chat y'all know
I'm telling the truth anything that y'all disagree
with me with go read
they know it
they know this it's blown to them
because normally
You take something.
If you take something, normally, if you take something, you steal something, Ocho.
They find out, what do they do?
They come give it back to the rightful owner.
No questions ask.
How can you purchase something that you didn't need to?
They already live here.
They already had it.
You can't purchase something that's not for sale.
Man, I bought the Statue of Liberty.
It ain't for sale.
I brought the Brooklyn Bridge.
It ain't for sale.
So how'd hear you buy something that wasn't for sale?
you took him
and then you put them on a trip
and look where they put them at
a little small pockets of land
Arizona
and a whole lot growing in Arizona
Oklahoma
y'all see what they did
they used to be up and down the south
shawnee chicktoll
the lumber lumbey
up and down
what they had now
they still got the seminoles
they still you know hey Florida State Seminole
they're proud they're a proud group
some of them
the Apache, some of them still won't
want their name. Some of them are
upset that the NFL
removed
that from the commander.
The commanders now what it used to be. Some of them
are upset about that. But they know.
That's why
it's really hard for me to talk about
other countries
when I know we've been
one of the biggest pervils.
Violence of systemic racism.
The biggest prevail.
What do you think?
We learned it from.
Violence is learned.
Talk.
Oh, so that's how you get it.
That's why you have to be careful
if you're a child and had violence perpetuated
against you.
You'll have kids that if you're not careful,
what would you do?
You do to your kids what were done to you.
So that's how you can get that.
So I can get me something.
Okay.
See that.
It's a cycle.
I mean, let's go.
Let's go, man.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
may it make me think about something, man.
It made me think, damn.
I ain't learned nothing in history,
Claire, because I don't know,
nothing shit you're talking about.
I was like,
I was like,
I got to be there.
All right, all, all.
I will say this.
And, yeah, I'm going to,
I'm going to pat HBC you on the black,
on the back.
There's no way I'm as informed
and as knowledgeable as I am.
had I gone to a PWI.
The curriculum is completely different.
Completely different.
They want to make sure
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Shannon, you're going to be something.
We want you to be our best representation.
Argentina would not face Switzerland
in the quarterfinals.
They defeated Columbia
in the defensive master class.
Match ended.
Couldn't get it solved
in stoppage, couldn't get it settled in extra time.
Switzerland won on PKs 4-3.
Yeah.
Ocho?
It was a good.
This was a very good game.
Hey, I thought Columbia had it right before half.
I mean, he got off a hollet, sir.
That goalkeeper, that goalkeeper from Switzerland.
Yeah, he was a baller.
Hey, it's been some good goalkeeping throughout this whole World Cup.
Yeah, man.
Absolutely.
Columbia had a few chances, too, an open play, huh?
You know, I can't remember number 21's name for
Columbia, he had he had a shot.
They had the right towards the end of the game, and he skyed it.
He scyed it.
He curved it too much.
That could have won the game for them before it even went to the extra time.
Outside of that, really good game.
Both teams, obviously, they had their opportunities on goal.
The goalies played extremely, extremely, extremely well on both sides.
Obviously, it came down to PKs.
I don't like PKs because you don't know it can go either way.
A lot of people, I think a lot of players, it makes them a lot of,
uncomfortable to have to kick PKs as well, as you can tell by some of them that are missing
and not confident.
You can just tell them their body language when they get up there.
So, I mean, listen, Switzerland is really, really good.
So when they play Argentina, it's going to be a really good game, really, really good game.
So I'm excited.
Man, that dude from Switzerland, he kicked the ball so far than there.
I say, because I could have did that.
Georgia, that wasn't even close.
And he was like, Lord, please let us win this game.
Please let us win this game.
Oh, my goodness.
And I think the thing is the Colombian goal kicker.
He's like, you know what?
They've been going this way the whole game.
Let me, and he gets wrong.
He gets wrong.
Because he almost got his hand on it.
On the first one, he almost got his, he got his hand on it,
but the guy put so much on it.
It still got past him.
Yeah, but he's like, oh, I was right there.
And the Swizzler guy, he had two of them and went right up, right up under.
So he was on it the whole game.
He was, oh, man, he was phenomenal.
It was nice.
Now we ain't got no soccer tomorrow.
No soccer tomorrow.
That's the one thing I don't like when it gets to the round, you know, round of eight.
And now you got to wait.
It was so exciting.
What, Thursday and Friday?
Yeah, Thursday and Friday, but, I mean, what the hell on?
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Belgium, the game that, ooh,
let me get mad all over again,
completely demoralizing loss.
Belgium has six shots and one goal
in the first 10 minutes of the game.
Malik Tillman scored in the 31st minute,
the tie the game 1-1.
But one minute later,
Charles K.
K. Tillerah, K Tillerah,
scored the second goal of the game.
So we score in a minute later, they done to lead again, Ocho, Joe.
You're right.
Matt Freed, I don't know what he was thinking.
Ocho, I need you to help me understand what he was thinking on this situation.
Belgium got the final goal in the third minute and stoppage time.
Ocho, four to one and this is what I said.
And I say this and I believe this in sports.
When you get beat really bad, they do your favor.
Because we have started to think that we were really close.
Joe, we're not close.
So we're not close.
We're not close.
So Belgium did us a favor to let us know,
guys, we had our hope way, way too high, way too high.
And I got involved and I still, hey, I still,
I'm waiting on my damn battle gun journey to come in.
But we're not, we're not there.
We're not there.
Hey, uncle and Joe, we got out class.
When I say out class, we got out class in every sense of the word.
The gap.
And I think want people.
obviously I have my soccer people that in the chat
that are probably watching the gap between
the top soccer nation
and the U.S. is so far apart.
They're technically better.
I think they're a little bit more skilled
and it showed them like the mistakes that
some of the U.S. players were making
where they could even make simple pass
and Joe, simple passes right there in front of you.
Oh, Cho.
What about clear? What am I clear the ball?
They make a little league mistakes.
Uncle Joe, Little League.
The basic fundamental.
that you learn when you four five years old
that you're supposed to master
by the time you get to, you know, on the
world stage. That level.
It was bad, man.
Ocho, I agree with you.
It's definitely levels to this and we
just not on that damn level. Okay, Ocho.
And listen, when I'm looking at it, man,
we can't win no one-on-ones.
Hell, we barely can even get lateral passes.
I'm like, damn. It's like we're playing
more backwards than forward.
You feel what I'm saying?
So when I'm watching, I'm like,
damn man we can't we can't get no rhythm bro and look you're right y'all right Belgium
saved us ass for them from Spain here we were gonna play Spain yeah you know man please
you want you want it you want to know why they were going backwards and I'm gonna use
basketball analogy let's say the Nixon plan right you pass the ball to Jalen Brunson
and they pick up 94 feet you know what I'm trying to say yeah hot yeah yeah yeah pressing the whole
time and we not comfortable playing out the goddamn back.
Not only are we not comfortable playing out the goddamn back.
They messing up the passes so everybody looks sloppy.
The USA team for the first time,
and you know it's my fault too.
Because I was praising them every week we came on here
because they looked so good in every game they played.
What's the first thing I said?
I've never seen the USA team look so comfortable on the ball.
I've never seen our players play like this with that kind of confidence.
They move the ball really well.
All of a sudden we play a real team.
God damn, we go right back to,
we go right back to you go what?
Listen, them last two goals,
they just, oh, they just disgust me.
I mean, I'm like, come on.
Man, you can't let nobody,
you can't let nobody come knock on your door,
on your front porch.
Hey, man, come here and catch his fade, homie.
You don't do nothing?
Come on, bro.
No, he opened the door and slap you.
You free?
Oh, you want to fight?
What do I want to fight?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Hey, hey, I mean, bro, I,
Hey, bro.
Hey, bro.
Polisic, you owe the U.S. team, bro.
You think he was hurt?
That's what you put on tape.
What you did this World Cup?
You think he was hurt, huh?
Sit down.
Because all I saw was Polisic on the back.
I don't know what he was.
But he didn't play with him.
They couldn't clear the ball.
They couldn't control the hell.
Bro.
And then they look at it like, like,
oh, my goodness.
I think until a lot of people,
what I don't like, a lot of people,
I hear a lot of people keep saying this in this discourse,
and this dialogue on Twitter and on Instagram,
if our best athletes played soccer,
and they started mentioning all the NBA players,
all the NFL players,
that really, the infrastructure in which we have here,
if all our best athletes did play and trained here in the United States,
we'd still be levels behind.
we'll still be left behind,
even if we started from four or five years old
because we don't have the infrastructure
in the academies that they do.
Yeah, you'd have to divert money
that you put towards football,
the war you put basketball,
to what you put towards baseball,
you'd have to divert that to soccer.
Like they do, they don't have,
they don't have all of that.
No.
How many, how many Argentine and baseball players they got?
How many Belgian baseball players they got?
How many Swiss baseball players they got?
Yeah, everybody keeps saying,
oh, we're so fast, we're so tall,
Where the fast is, and people don't understand,
it had nothing, speed is, is, is an asset.
Being fast, that's a good thing in soccer,
but everybody ain't fast.
Yeah.
The technical ability to be able to play with the ball at your feet
is more important in your IQ and understanding of the game,
being able to see, being able to see,
being able to see, being able to pass is,
it's much more important than just being fast.
That's just, that's just half the damn battle.
Yeah.
But.
we see a lot oh joe if that's the case all the fastest men the fastest 100 meter men
why ain't on the football field if that's all it would require we've seen a lot of guys come
out there and try that that ran track and they take their ass right back to the track yeah i don't
peep it on okay they dig hey go back and look when ronado nil maire he ran that shallow cross
and he didn't know it was man on and he and he was looking at joe and joe thought oh you
looking at me?
When you're telling me
it's man.
Look at it.
John Capel tried it.
Jim Demp's tried it.
It's not a whole lot of guys.
You need to be able
if speed is great to have,
but if you can't control it,
it ain't going to do it.
It's different.
It's different.
But like you said,
Ocho, that's not, I mean, guys like
they grew up soccer
has always been their big thing.
in those countries.
Just like basketball and football and baseball
has been our big thing here.
Yeah.
Now, you know, you see all of a sudden
some of these guys, you look at Serbia.
You see they get basketball.
Because they're putting more emphasis on it.
How long?
Since the dream team in 92, they're like, oh,
I can probably do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I can do that.
You look at, you look at,
your,
Yonnis.
It's like,
oh,
I can do that.
You know,
they're in a whole lot
that one of,
what that physicality
come with that football field.
Yeah.
That's a whole,
that's a whole different animal
them now.
Hey,
they don't care,
how fast you are,
boy, look here.
Eventually,
they'll hear me up.
Yes,
uh.
They'll run you into something.
Man,
Belgium beat the brakes off us.
And I'm so disappointed me,
my sister, man, my sister, my sister couldn't even all the talk.
So that was embarrassing.
You know how, you know how I knew and I didn't get a chance to share this because I can't
write it.
I didn't want to write it on Twitter and had that long-ass speech.
But I hear a lot of people saying, oh, our best players, if they played, if they
played soccer, we dominate the World Cup.
And I just made one statement and told them, probably not, probably not.
Even if there's no guarantee, even if we did start from four or five years old, that it was
still translate. Think about how many Brazilians there are, right? How many Brazilians play
soccer in general. But there's every, every few years, there's only one. There's only one
Namar. There's only one Ronaldino. There's only one Ronaldo. So of all the Brazilians that've
been playing, you know, with that infrastructure and ecosystem that they have out there,
playing with flair and sort of like streetball, still not that meaning have been, not that
meaning of come along. Not that meaning of come along. I remember, but that's all they got.
no, Ocho.
They ain't playing basketball.
They're not playing baseball.
They're not playing baseball.
They're not playing.
They're not a lot of.
So, I mean, that's, I mean, think about it.
When you, if, if you said, okay, you can only play baseball.
And there are a smattering of guys that play football or smattering of guys that play basketball.
Well, you don't get a lot of, like the Dominicans, like the Venezuelans, like the Caraco.
Yeah, Kirasat.
Yeah, Kirasai.
I think Andrew Jones from curious.
So yes.
So yes.
But when you got millions of guys playing football,
million of the guys playing basketball,
million of the guys playing baseball,
man, what you think you're going to get?
You go get a dabbling of this,
dabling of that, a dabbling of this,
as opposed to all your focus is on this.
The Brazilians, the infrastructure is what?
Okay.
You have something that are good,
Then you have great ones.
So just because we all play,
doesn't mean we all going to be great
because we're great at football
or great at basketball.
It might not translate.
It's completely different.
You know,
you know,
it was eye-opening to me,
Unk?
And Joe,
I'm going to share this real quick
and for people in the chat.
What's that?
I mean, I'm sure those
that follow me on Twitter
have always seen the pictures
that I send or our post
with Messi and Cristiano
over the years.
Back when Messi was at Barcelona,
when he first debuted,
when Ronald,
when Ronald Deño went in Samuel Eito
were there,
And obviously there's pictures of me and Jose Marino,
who's now the head coach back at,
he's back at Rio Madrid for his second stint, right?
Unk, I think, I forgot what you,
I think it was 2007, 2007.
I can't remember what year was I went down to Real Madrid in the offseason.
But damn, you just said 2007?
You just said 2007.
No, I'm trying to remember the year when Marino was there.
2007 is a year.
Okay, hey, come on, Unk, I'm trying to make sure it's the right year.
But anyway, to make them, to make a long story short,
I went to see Cristiano in the team, and I asked if I could practice with them.
Because it was a, they didn't play till, they didn't play till Saturday, and they got there on
the Thursday.
So they let me put on the orange reserve jersey.
So I was part of the reserves.
Now, they don't play big field.
They play the smaller fields.
My football season just in and up.
So I'm like, I'm in shape.
You feel fresh.
So you feel good.
So I'm in my mind, my ego, being kind of arrogant and cocky.
man, I'm going to fly about all these dudes.
And my skill and technique wasn't as good,
but I just knew because I'm fast as hell,
I'd be able to get by.
Joe, though, they embarrass me for about 30 minutes straight.
I mean, no, no, no, I'm not trying to be funny.
That's why when I look at, I'm hearing the discourse
about our best athletes, my year, I'm still in my prime.
I'm in my prime and I'm playing with the reserves.
And it's a small field.
So it's a, it's a shorter distance for me to be running.
I should be able to do it.
They made me look stupid.
I was out there like a chick with my head cut off
trying to catch the ball.
I couldn't even see the ball at that level.
Dog, everything is precise on point, on pricing.
And nobody made mistakes.
And, dude, it was embarrassing for me.
It was humbling, but I also understood there's levels.
Now, this is Real Madrid.
I mean, obviously.
Yeah.
I mean, we talk about one of the best club,
if not the best club in the world,
especially during that time.
it was eye-opening.
There's levels to pros.
I don't know how many people have ever seen a tennis match.
But go watch a tennis match.
Of close.
Yes.
I did an exhibition in Baltimore,
Pete Sanfrey-Agris,
and to watch Sanfrey-Apros hit that ball.
Now, Sanfrey was a huge server.
Now, you know, now we had those big guys,
and back then everybody served in Bali.
Yeah.
You hit the ball, run to the net.
It was these quick points.
Now everybody play baseline to baseline.
You know, that was before John Isner and Carlovak and, you know,
we had even these events and we had some cratchack.
We had some big service.
But now the guy, they can serve, but they don't, they play baseline.
Everybody stand back and wait for you to make a mistake.
These guys, you know, when you had Stefan Edberg and you had those Boris Becker's,
you had guys like they hit the ball and they go to the net crowd and make you make a great pass.
But when you see people that they do this for.
the highest level.
It gives you an appreciation.
You're like, I be damn.
Yeah.
When you watch a pro hit a golf ball,
that ball is different than when somebody, you know,
oh, yeah, I go down there, me and my buddy play on the weekend.
That issue is different.
You go to an NBA game and you watch the guy and tell me,
man, that guy is bummed.
He'll never get in the game and watch him shoot it.
Never miss.
Man, I told you, I watched Chet.
Chet hit like 17 threes in a row from one spot.
You watch these guys, I'm talking about pros,
and you look at him like, bro, how are you not in the game?
And then that just goes to show you.
The guy that is in the game, just how good he is.
Yeah.
Because these guys are really good.
But when you see Jokovic and you see Nadal and you see Federer,
you see all these guys, now you got Sen and Alcarat.
You see all these guys doing you like, well, damn.
You really, really get an appreciation to watch a pro,
watch them at their craft.
Man, I watched Serena Williams.
I saw Serena Williams and the semifinals.
That's when the semifinals used to be played at night.
And she was playing, she married David Lee.
What's her name?
She's Danish.
Man, Serena Williams was hitting the ball.
It sounded like somebody hitting the baseball.
them.
Wozniacki, that's who, yes, the Great Dane.
I said, oh my goodness.
I mean, she was, hey, the sir,
and then she was cranking that forehand.
Hey, Greg, got some power on you, man.
I bet I feel bad.
I ain't a lot, Joe, I felt bad.
She got some power, don't you, I feel bad?
She got some power, don't you man?
What? Yeah.
Look, I saw Serena when she was in a,
I'm talking about when she was physically at a peak.
Yeah.
Lord have the caps on her shoulders
her arms her legs
are yeah oh yeah
man
it's different and hey Joe
hey hey yeah you really get an appreciation
Ocho so I can understand what you said
to be there and to see them
and even though those guys weren't messy
or Renato or what we and Boppao
those guys but just the reserves
I was with the reserves I was going to get
I was going to get
You were going against them.
You were going against them.
Yes, I'm going against them.
They had me looking stupid.
It had me, it had me looking stupid.
And I'm thinking, I'm just coming off the season.
I didn't have no injuries, no nicks, no knacks.
Man, I'm going to go out here and act a fool.
Man, I come out of the field.
Mordino laughing at me.
Yeah.
Now you know how people feel when they're standing on the sidelines
and they see us going to, man,
to my home are like, God,
damn, boy, y'all are moving.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the legs hurt.
Yeah.
Because you running fast and they're running fast and continue hands.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
So you get to,
that's why I appreciate the greatness
to play a sport
and to be,
to be at that level, Joe.
Yeah.
You know, the level that you had, Joe,
and a whole lot of players.
I mean, they're 5,000.
They ain't 5,000 players been better than Joe Johnson.
Hello.
Say it again.
They might not be, they might not be,
500 players out of the 5,000.
Hello.
Because like we say.
Hello.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
They do that damn top 100 because they got, what they got top 75 right now.
Yeah.
They're going to have to take it up, Ocho.
Come on, man.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I ain't now.
I ain't, no.
I ain't.
A lot of people get, hey, they're like, who's the underrated score?
You know, T-Mack and Mello and Garnett.
They say Joe Johnson.
Yeah.
Hey, that's the biggest compliment you can get from your peers, bro.
I can't wait until we play.
You know, guys who you don't battle with, guys who you didn't battle against.
I mean, come on, man.
What you say, Ocho?
What you just said?
I thought I heard you say something by one.
You know, I, what, what you?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, baby, I'm going to whoop Joe ass, boy.
Hey, you got to cheer at home, boy.
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